All’s Fine on the Foob Front

I talked to one of Dr. Gummy’s nurses and I was relieved to find out I hadn’t messed up my foob job. I was really starting to regret my new party trick but I have been redeemed! The incredible shifting foob (as one reader aptly put it) is due to no fault of my own. Whew!

So here’s the deal: when they removed my breast tissue during my mastectomy it left behind what they refer to as the “breast pocket”. The size of the pocket is determined by the size and placement of my real breast and has nothing to do with anything that I did or my mastectomy surgeon did.

When I talked to the nurse she had my chart in front of her. She said she could tell just by looking at my “before” pictures that my breast pocket is larger on the right side than the left. Then she explained that the shifting of my expander has to do with the fact that my right breast pocket is a little larger than the size of the expander. Now that my skin and muscle has stretched out and relaxed after my ginormous fill, my expander is able to slide around in the pocket.

So that’s the good news. Even though it feels creepy and it freaked me out, nothing is actually amiss. She said it’s not hurting anything to be moving around so I don’t need to wear a bra if I don’t want to. That said I think I will go get myself a sports bra that fits because I don’t really like the dang thing sliding around. Ew.

The great news is that apparently Dr. Gummy can use plastic surgery magic to adjust the size of my pocket so that I don’t have to live with creepy shifting implants for the rest of my life. Thank God! He’ll fix the pocket when I have the surgery to exchange my expanders for the amazing and much anticipated gummy bear implants.

Since he can fix the pocket this also means that the foob that is a little lower can be moved up a bit to even it out with the other one. The size difference between the two can be fixed by putting a different sized implant on the side that apparently has a little bit deeper pocket.

In a nutshell, things can be adjusted during the exchange surgery, and that my friends is the fantastic news. So we can all let out a sigh of relief. There is still hope in my quest for symmetrical foobs!